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Game Master's Guide to Traits and Actions for Monsters and NPCs

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EPIC ENEMY DESIGN

Want to customize existing monsters or build your own from scratch? Now you can!

Inside, you’ll find over 1,800 exciting new ideas and inspiration for:

  • Every Creature and Damage Type
  • Melee, Ranged, and Natural Weapons
  • Psionics, Psychic Powers, and Telepathy
  • Innate Spellcasters and Spell-Like Abilities
  • Running Monsters as Enemies and Allies

Plus Monster, NPC, and PC rules for:

  • Advantages and Disadvantages
  • Combat Tactics and Training
  • New Professions and Downtime Activities

We even include some example monsters we've revised with extra traits, actions, and reactions to show you how to use the system we provide.

This book has everything you need to make 5th Edition (5e) monsters and NPCs mysterious and dangerous, the way they should be!

This mammoth GM's guide makes a great gift and is perfect for quickly customizing existing monsters in-game AND a fun shortcut to reduce your prep time when creating monsters or NPCs from scratch. Whatever you need, whenever you need it, the Game Master's Guide to Traits and Actions has you covered!

This 5e handbook is fully compatible for use with the 5e, the 5th Edition of the world's greatest fantasy roleplaying game, but to make full use of it, you also need a copy of the PHB, DMG, and MM.


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REVIEWS

"Just tons and tons of [incredible] options... [if you want  to customize monsters and NPCs] this is a good book for you!"
-- Splinterverse (YouTube channel)


"Everything you want to know about traits and actions, covering a wide range of situations, with useful tables to boot. Well-written and easily accessible for GMs of all levels; if you're new it provides a great foundation, and if you're experienced, it'll add even more creativity to your games."
-- Amazon reviewer
 

"...This book is packed with some amazing content that will put your game and gaming experience on another level. Well worth the cover price. Buy this book, use it, and watch as your games become more exciting than ever!"
-- Amazon reviewer


"Another great Magegate product. The book is jam packed with ideas on how to add extra abilities to well known NPC and foes in 5E."
-- Amazon UK reviewer


"A TON of information regarding Traits. This book gives the GM a lot of different traits to choose from, some are mild, some are powerful. All of them appear to be balanced and can add depth to a campaign."
-- DTRPG Reviewer


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Adam S August 06, 2022 9:25 am UTC
The tags say this is for 5e, pathfinder, and OSR. Since that doesn't seem to be the case, I recommend clearing that up.
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Andrew B August 04, 2022 9:44 pm UTC
This book makes a lot of interesting promises. Any way to check under the hood and see a little of how it does what it does? Could we see 10 to 20 pages of this almost 300 page book so we can see how it works a bit? Thanks in advance for your response.
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Jackson C August 04, 2022 10:39 pm UTC
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Hi Andrew! Sorry, somehow, the preview option got turned off. Thanks for letting us know! We've re-enabled it to show the first 15 pages as usual for our books. This has all the front matter (including the index so you can see all the topics we cover), plus you get the complete sections for Aberrations, Acid, and Air/Fly/Wings.

Many sections run an average of 4-5 pages, each separated into that creature or damage type's misc. traits, followed by actions, followed by reactions, and scaled by creature size when relevant. Some sections are only 2 pages (like Senses), while some are 10 pages (like Humanoids). Hopefully, the preview generates quickly... I'll check back in a bit and see if it's up or if I need to contact customer service.
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Jackson C August 04, 2022 11:15 pm UTC
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Preview (full size and quick flip) are up! Thanks again for letting me know. Hope you enjoy the book!
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Andrew B August 06, 2022 1:21 am UTC
Thats great. Thanks. Thats exactly what I need. To see the extent of the content plus an example or two of what the book is about. Ill check it out now.
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